Tag: Japan
Senegal, Egypt, Ukraine, Japan win UN Security Council seats
Senegal, Japan and Egypt won seats at the UN Security Council on Thursday as world diplomacy is overshadowed by tensions…
General Assembly to hold election for 5 Security Council seats
The 70th session of the UN General Assembly is scheduled to hold elections for the non-permanent seat on the UN…
Japan centenarian population tops 60,000
Japanese government said on Friday, the number of centenarians in Japan exceeded 60,000 in 2015, hitting a record high for…
Explosion rocks US military base
Pentagon Spokesman, Navy Comdr. William Urban, confirmed that an explosion occurred at the United States Army Sagami General Depot in…
Nigerian scouts in Japan for World Jamboree
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The Chief Commissioner of Scout in Nigeria, Chief Soga Sofolahan has described Nigeria participation at this year World…
US beat Japan 5-2 to win third Women’s World Cup title
Carli Lloyd became the first woman to score a hattrick in a World Cup final as she inspired the United…
Japan beat England, face USA in final
Edmonton (Canada) (AFP) – Holders Japan swiped a dramatic 2-1 victory over England thanks to an injury-time own-goal by defender…
Japan executes convict, 12th under premier Abe
Japan on Thursday confirmed the execution of one death-row inmate by hanging, in the first execution since August, bringing the…
Challenges for PM Abe, as polls produce only 4 female mayors
Local elections in Japan produced just four female mayors of the 222 positions up for grabs, results showed Monday, underlining…
Japan marks 10th anniversary of fatal train crash
Japan on Saturday marked the 10th anniversary of the nation’s worst train accident in recent memory, which killed 107 people…
Chelsea to sign Japan striker Muto for $5.9m
English Premier League leaders Chelsea have made a formal offer for Japan striker Yoshinori Muto, his club FC Tokyo said…
Japan halts Uber taxi services
Japan has slammed the brakes on a pilot project by taxi service Uber less than a month after it was…
S. Korea urges Japan to apologise to ‘comfort women’
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Sunday repeated a call for Japanese leaders to apologise to former wartime sex slaves,…
Japan police arrest ‘IS-inspired’ killing teen
Japanese police on Friday arrested a teenager on suspicion of killing a 13-year-old schoolboy, in a chilling murder some local…
Japan unveils ‘Tomatan’ a wearable tomatoes
As the world’s electronic companies scramble to set the agenda for wearable devices, one Japanese vegetable juice maker went one…